a quick overview:
Chupa Chups: Indeterminate, Regular leaf, Mid season; multi coloured golden-yellow flesh marbled with red centre and antho black shoulders; averaging 280g; sweet, intense and flavourful
BrandyFred (dwarf tomato project): Dwarf, rugose Potato leaf; fruits are purple with darker shoulders, slightly ribbed around 150-300g; deep, rich, smokey flavour; cross between 'Dwarf Wild Fred' and 'Brandywine', named by Vince Lavallo in 2008
Midnight Sun: Indeterminate, Potato leaf; heart-shaped golden-yellow-orange beefsteaf around 200-400g; rich and meaty firm fruits with pink marbling; cross between ‘Ludmilla’s Pink Heart’ and ‘Captain Lucky’, from the True North project, bred by Karen Olivier (Northern Gardener)
Yellow Brick Road: Dwarf, rugose Regular leaf; mini yellow on yellow striped beefsteaks around 50g, on beautiful, productive and sturdy 20” dwarf plants; part of the “Wizard of Oz” series from the Short and Sweet project, bred by Karen Olivier
Lilibet F5 plant (Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom x Dwarf Speckled Heart): Indeterminate, Regular Leaf (2) and Potato leaf (1); these plants are now F5 and still segregating leaf forms; yellow flesh with clear skin should be stable, nice texture very meaty and juicy, around 300g; good flavour balance
Lilly 5 plant – T23-68 from NCTomatoman (Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom x Dwarf Speckled Heart): Dwarf, Regular Leaf; these plants are now F5; avidly flowering plants that produced medium to large pink hearts with gold stripes, with a nice meaty texture and excellent flavour
Lucky Tiger: Indeterminate, delicate Regular leaf; early mid-season; Fred Hempel crossed his Green Tiger with Blush; introduced in 2013; taste described as "full-fledged, spicy, sweet and complex" with tropical notes and nicely balanced acidity; multi-colored, striped, green-red-yellow plums in long clusters, weighing 20-40g with green gel; resistant to fungal diseases
Atomic Sunset: Indeterminate, Regular leaf; Midseason; a cross by Brad Gates containing genetics of his Brad’s Atomic Grape; elongated bicoloured stripped cherry tomato; flavour is well balanced and juicy with citrus notes; can hang on the vine for weeks while fully ripened; production can be excellent; fruit average about 50g
Green Krim Cherry: Indeterminate, Regular leaf, midseason; off type from Black Krim Cherry (from FusionPower) found by Tatiana in 2015; light green fruit with darker shoulder, with a faint pink blush at the end when the fruit is fully ripe; sweet, juicy with a spicy touch; large 30-50g cherry tomatoes; high yields
Heart’s Delite Black: Compact Indeterminate, Regular leaf, midseason; brown /black oblate medium beefsteak slicer - some with green shoulders, 200-400g; juicy, green gel around seeds; some minor concentric cracking/scars; delicious rich flavour
Wentzell: Indeterminate, Potato leaf, early short season beefsteak adapted to northern climates ; South Shore, Nova Scotia heirloom; presumed to be a strain of Pink Brandywine, the Wentzell family (who were settlers of what is now Windhorse Farm in Lunenburg County) saved seeds from the earliest ripening fruits for half a century; dense, meaty and awesome for sandwiches
Orange Russian (Doukhobors): Indeterminate, Regular leaf, midseason; 100-150g yellow oblate fruit with green shoulders; some radial cracking; very good mild acidic taste, juicy; Very high yields
Moonlight Mile: Indeterminate (medium size bush), Regular variegated leaf, midseason; 50-80g; bred by Blane Horton; a cross between Karson’s First (a striped Roma tomato) and Faelans First Snow (a purple flattened and round tomato); released in 2019; flower stalks are white with thin green stripes; 4-5 fruits per truss with plum-shaped fruit with elongated pointed tips or round heart-shaped fruits; dark crimson with dark green stripes; sweet with a bright and intense flavour
Rose Quartz: Indeterminate, Regular leaf, early; small round, rose-colored cherry fruits have clear skin with characteristic white flecks; outstanding flavour - very sweet, juicy, distinctive and addictive; origin likely traces to Japanese F1 Sweet Rose Quartz .... this is not the multiflora strain
Crushed Heart: Indeterminate, Regular wispy leaf, mid-season; from Brad Gates, Wild Boar Farm; medium to large fruit 100-300g; super heart shaped and very meaty with a rich, semi-sweet flavour; rose-pink with green stripes; like all anthocyanin tomatoes, the more light, the darker the colour splashes; very good production
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